Advisory Committees

2016 – SGAC – Comments on the Implementation of the Indian Trust Asset Reform Act

Public Law 114-178 clearly affirms that ITARA does not replace the rights Tribes have to enter into Compacts. However the law should supplement and extend rights Tribes have under these Compacts and support expansion of Tribal Self-Determination. As such, SGAC provides the following comments to implement ITARA so that it maximizes Self-Governance.

2016 – TSGAC – Comments on HHS Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2018 (CMS-9934-P)

Comments submitted  on the proposed rule published in the Federal Register on September 6, 2016, and titled “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; HHS Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2018”, CMS-9934-P (Proposed Rule) The Proposed Rule sets forth payment parameters and provisions related to the risk adjustment program; cost-sharing parameters and cost-sharing reductions; …

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2014 – CMS – Third Party Payments of Premiums for Qualified Health Plans in the Marketplaces

On November 4, 2013, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS) issued a frequently asked question (FAQ) related to third party payments of premiums for qualified health plans (QHPs) in the Marketplace. Since then, questions have arisen whether this FAQ applies to payments of premiums and cost sharing made on behalf of QHP enrollees …

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